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Daredevil Paraglider Sails with the Northern Lights in Awesome Video
Paraglider Horacio Llorens has always wanted to fly with the gorgeous northern lights. In January 2016, he finally got his wish and Red Bull was there to capture the photos...
30 years since Challenger: Teacher-in-Space finalists gather
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Dozens of educators who competed alongside Christa McAuliffe to become the first teacher in space gathered Thursday to...
ESA image: Mercury orbiter test
If ESA's Mercury orbiter of the BepiColombo mission seems to stand at an unusual angle above its test chamber floor, that's because it does – intentionally so.
Astronaut Scott Kelly's Photos of Winter Storm Jonas from Space
On Tumblr, Astronaut Scott Kelly presents a gallery of storms on Earth seen from the International Space Station.
The Milky Way's clean and tidy galactic neighbor
Many galaxies are chock-full of dust, while others have occasional dark streaks of opaque cosmic soot swirling in amongst their gas and stars. However, the subject of this new image,...
Both hemispheres of the brain process numbers
Researchers have located an important region for the visual processing of numbers in the human brain and showed that it is active in both hemispheres. The scientists published high resolution...
Exciting missions that could unlock secrets of the solar system in 2016
From the mystery of methane on Mars to how Jupiter formed and whether there is microbial life on Saturn's moon Enceladus, there are many questions about our solar system waiting...
Comet Catalina and the Pinwheel Galaxy Caught in Stargazer's Photo
The Pinwheel Galaxy and Comet Catalina shine in this skywatcher image.Astrophotgrapher Greg Hogan took this image on Jan. 18, 2016 from Kathleen, GA.
Getting real — on Mars
NASA wants you to know that it's only a matter of months before you can wake up in a Martian habitat, grab some breakfast, jump into your spacesuit, and head...
AggieSat4 scheduled to deploy from ISS
The AggieSat4 (AGS4) satellite carrying Bevo-2 will be unpacked and assembled aboard the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday (Jan. 27), and released into outer space on Friday (Jan. 29)....
NASA image: Space station flyover of the Mediterranean
Expedition 46 flight engineer Tim Peake of the European Space Agency (ESA) shared this stunning nighttime photograph with his social media followers on Jan. 25, 2016.
UPI Almanac for Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016
By United Press International On Jan. 27, 1967, astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee died in a fire aboard the Apollo 1 spacecraft during a launch rehearsal test.
New York Jets' Sheldon Richardson sentenced to probation
The Sports Xchange New York Jets defensive lineman Sheldon Richardson pleaded guilty in court on Tuesday to a lesser charge and averted jail time.
Star Wars: History and Legacy on Space Exploration
A long time ago — roughly four decades — the world was introduced to Jedi knights, lightsabers, droids and the Force. Before long, elements of the space fantasy had an...
Boeing Toiling to Build 'World's Most Powerful Rocket'
The rocket under development will have 8.5 million pounds of thrust. "That's 31 747s at full power," says one engineer.
How to Get Five Planets Into a Single Photograph
The trickiest aspect of capturing Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn in the same image is knowing where to look.
Astronaut Plays Zero-G Ping-Pong With a Ball of Water (Video)
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly is passing the time to play a little ping-pong — not using a traditional ball, but a ball of water. Watch the video here.
Ceres: Keeping well-guarded secrets for 215 years
New Year's Day, 1801, the dawn of the 19th century, was a historic moment for astronomy, and for a space mission called Dawn more than 200 years later. That night,...
Space-earth system produces highest-resolution astronomical image
Using an orbiting radio-astronomy satellite combined with 15 ground-based radio telescopes, astronomers have made the highest-resolution, or most-detailed, astronomical image yet, revealing new insights about a gorging black hole in...
Work progressing on prototype Russian bomber
Richard TomkinsMOSCOW, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- Russia's Air and Space Forces chief says a prototype strategic bomber the PAK DA could take to the air before 2021.
Locked safe found in Pablo Escobar's demolished Miami Beach home
Andrew V. PestanoMIAMI, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- A safe was found in the now-demolished Miami Beach, Fla., home formerly belonging to Pablo Escobar, Colombia's most notorious drug trafficker.
Kate Hudson learns Dubsmash with Jimmy Fallon
Marilyn MalaraNEW YORK, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- Kate Hudson played Dubsmash for the first time during her appearance on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon."
PPPL Team Wins 80 Million Processor Hours on Nation's Fastest Supercomputer
Feature describes modeling of laser-produced plasmas that closely approximate the plasma in astrophysical objects.
Russian volunteer programmers help to find mysterious black holes
The term "black hole" was first used in the mid-20th century by theoretical physicist John Wheeler. This term denotes relativistic supermassive objects that are invisible in all electromagnetic waves, but...
Searching for orbiting companion stars
The search for exoplanets via the radial velocity technique has been underway for nearly 30 years. The method searches for wobbles in a star's motion caused by the presence of...
Astronomers find six new millisecond pulsars
(Phys.org)—NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has once again proven that it is an excellent tool to search for rotating neutron stars emitting beams of electromagnetic radiation, known as pulsars. A...
The race to hypersonic speed—will air passengers feel the benefits?
When Concorde entered service 40 years ago, it more than doubled the speed of air travel at a stroke. Following Concorde's retirement, airliners today fly once more at subsonic speeds,...
Pluto's Blue Bands Get High-Resolution Makeover
Pluto's blue bands shine spectacularly in the highest-resolution image yet of the dwarf planet's atmosphere.